• First 8th Air Force organization to fly non-stop by squadrons across the North Atlantic - Gander, Newfoundland, to Prestwick, Scotland

• Assigned the YB-40 aircraft for bomber escort

• Taken off operations to establish the Combat Crew Replacement Centers - November 1942.

  Returned to combat operations May 1943

• Flew the largest number of support missions between England and North Africa - September - December 1942

• Led the 8th Air Force mission of 14 October 1943 to Schweinfurt (Black Thursday)

• Led the Eighth Air Force mission of 25 April 1945 to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia - last bombing mission by the 8th Air Force in the ETO

• "Operation Revival" - Transport of former POWs from Barth (Stalag Luft I) to USA military control

• "Green Project" - Transport of high point troops to Air Transport Command centers

• Deactivated 24 February 1946

• Reactivated 15 July 1946; assigned to Strategic Air Command

• 92nd Bombardment Group (Very Heavy); B-29 - 15th Air Force - 6 August 1946

• Redesignated 92nd Bombardment Group (Medium)

• 92nd Bombardment Group (M); Korea - 8 July 1950 - 22 October 1950 - initial operations 24 hours after arrival at Yokota

• 92nd Bombardment Wing (Heavy) - 25 February 1951

• B-36 - July 1951

• Anderson AFB, Guam - 17 October 1954 - 23 January 1955

• Conversion to B-52D - 1 October 1956 - 22 September 1957

• 92nd Air Refueling Squadron - 13 September 1957

• Conversion to KC-135 - 21 February - 11 September 1958

• First Atlas-E missle complex activated - 17 March 1961

• Ninth Atlas-E missle complex activated - 28 September 1961

• 92nd Strategic Aerospace Wing - 15 February 1962

• Refueling of fighter a/c - Viet Nam and Young Tiger - 22 September 1964 - 25 December 1974

• Phase-out of Atlas-5 - April 1965

• B-52 deployment to Guam - October 1966

• Start of ARC Light, Viet Nam - 1 April 1968

• B-52B - 16 October 1970

• Bullet Shot (stepped up bombing) - March 1972

• Redesignated 92nd Bombardment Wing (92 BMW)

• Termination of operations - Viet Nam; return from Guam - 25 October 1973

• Eruption of Mt. St. Helens during Fairchild AFB open house - 18 May 1980; wing down for one month (operational capability)

• Air-launched cruise missle operational - 8 September 1983

• B-52H - 10 September 1985

• 92nd BMW assigned to 15th Air Force, Travis AFB - 15 June 1988

• Operation Desert Shield support - 15 August 1990

• First re-engined KC-135 - 27 August 1990

• Desert Storm - 15 January 1991 - 27 February 1991

• 92nd and 43rd Air Refueling Squadrons' operations - 15 August 1990 - 19 August 1991

  1,074 sorties
  5,904 hours
  33.1 million pounds of fuel off-loaded

• Redesignated 92nd Wing - 1 September 1991

• Stand down of alert crews and a/c - 28 September 1991

• Proud Shield 92-SAC bombing and navigation competition - 11 May 1992

  92nd Wing scoops up all available first place hardware:

  Fairchild Trophy - Best Combined Bombing/Navigation Team
  Saunders Trophy - KC-135 Operations/Maintenance
  Holloway Trophy - Tanker Unit Celestial Navigation

  SAC's premier wing

• Air Force Reorganization - 1 June 1992

  SAC dissolved
  Assigned to Air Combat Command (ACC)
  Redesginated 92nd Bomb Wing

• Transitioning to tankers - 1 April 1994

• Transfer to Air Mobility Command (AMC) - 1 July 1994
  Redesignated 92nd Air Refueling Wing

• Vigilant Warrior - 10 October 1994

• 43rd Air Refueling Squadron inactivated - 31 March 1994
  93rd Air Refueling Squadron activated

• Solano Trophy - "Most Outstanding Performance by an Organization Assigned to the 15th Air Force" - 1997

• Omaha Trophy - Presented by the citizens of Omaha and the United States Strategic Command to the ballistic missle unite and aircraft unit that best supports th strategic deterrence mission of the command - 1997

• Omaha Trophy - "They are the best tanker unit in Air Mobility Command" - Lt. Gen. John B. Sams, Jr, Commander, 15th Air Force, 18 May 1999 - 1998

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